Corporal Whitcomb scrutinized the chaplain’s face closely for some sign of rebellion and then breezed ahead confidently with concealed irony.

Colonel Korn inquired with ironical tranquillity.

Yossarian snickered ironically and joked, ’Put a gun on and start marching with me.’

There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest,’ Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

’I did it in a moment of weakness,’ Yossarian wisecracked with glum irony.

Despite the multiple perils to which Major — de Coverley exposed himself each time he rented apartments, his only injury had occurred, ironically enough, while he was leading the triumphal procession into the open city of Rome, where he was wounded in the eye by a flower fired at him from close range by a seedy, cackling, intoxicated old man, who, like Satan himself, had then bounded up on Major — de Coverley’s car with malicious glee, seized him roughly and contemptuously by his…